New Attack against United Nations troops Ivory Coast, a new war or genocide in the country 301210-1

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Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:50

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Defense News - Ivory Coast

Thursday,
December 30, 2010, 10:06 AM

Attack
against the United Nations troops in Ivory Coast, a new war
or genocide in the country.

Following
an new attack against the United Nations Forces in Ivory
Coast this December 29th, 2010, the tension continues to
grow. The partisans of Laurent Gbagbo the incumbent President
incite to attack the HQ of Alassane Ouattara, a luxury hotel
protected by the UN mission soldiers.

Jordanian soldiers members of the ONUCI patrol on a street
of Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Speeches of incentive to violence would be diffused by
national television. According to UN sources, the RTI
would diffuse speeches which encourage the population
to rebel against the ONUCI.

The accusations were levelled by the UN peacekeeping chief
Alain Le Roy who blamed an attack on a UN convoy, in which
a soldier was injured with a machete, on the broadcaster:

Incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo has accused the UN
of meddling in his country’s internal politics,
It has defied Gbagbo’s order to leave the country,
instead extending the mandate for its 10,000 strong force
for another six months.

An ambassador of Alassane Ouattara estimates that the
country is at the edge of genocide.